The world of The Boondocks. African-American stereotypes are rampant, corrupt rich white people get away with everything, a group of muslims owning a gas station are arrested for defending themselves when their station is robbed and the robbers (aforementioned rich assholes) are cheered for stomping out terrorism, and any world where Uncle Ruckus isn't locked inside an insane asylum is a bad one.

With the deadliest diseases in the world. As any long-time fan of South Park knows, in the eponymous town, the more common diseases like the cold and flu don't exist. When a character gets sick, it's always, and we do mean always with one of those terminal life-threatening diseases that land you in the hospital. Without Negative Continuity, the place would be heading into "Life After People" territory.

She has gotten better over time. It's the rest of the parents who lack common sense that can make living in South Park hell.

The fictional town of The Ren & Stimpy Show. It is a city full of Ax Crazies, sociopaths, perverts, jerks, greedy maniacs and Nausea Fuel, not to mention the two main characters of the show: Ren is a clear mentally unstable guy, and Stimpy is a Man Child, in spite of being sometimes act like an idiot, is clearly more normal than his friend.

And George Liquor. He's an animal abuser (though not intentionally), jerkass, Comedic Sociopath and Ax-Crazy, capable of the most extreme things to be the best one.

Ditto Duckman. Even the animation depicting the show is deliberately ugly, even if it's the studio's style.

Clamburg in Making Fiends. It's been overrun by a kid in grade school with the power to make fiends, almost all the shops are closed down, and the inhabitants can't find any joy whatsoever. At one point, it was deemed unlivable, and the residents were forced to leave.

After The Movie, Bikini Bottom itself from SpongeBob SquarePants, may qualify. Bikini Bottom as shown, is a city full of grumpy people, manchildren, Jerkasses, idiots and even extreme racists, hating mammalian species (like squirrels) and even other aquatic inhabitants by skin color (see the episode "Sun Bleached").

The world of Invader Zim, where humans are generally stupid, ignorant, and repulsive and the world they live in is polluted and unclean. The episode "Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom" featured creatures from another almost hell-like dimension crossing over under the impression that the other side is a perfect world that they can ruin, but they are so repulsed by their first impressions that they immediately retreat back into their own world. The Irkens, the other main civilisation featured, are a cheerfully xenocidal species that decide rank by the individual's height and whose main form of entertainment is the extermination of entire planets while eating nachos and curly fries. The main characters—-being somewhat more intelligent than most of the others—-nevertheless only seem able to cope by being delusional (Zim), apathetic (Gaz) or ridiculously persistent (Dib).

The episode "Door to Door" plays with this idea well, as Zim shows a cretinous family what will happen if they don't buy his candy—the Crapsack World will become even worse!

And the future he shows them is, in actuality, the fate Zim has in mind for Earth when he succeeds.

The Venture Bros. features this pretty heavily. All of the primary characters are neatly defined by their failures, and the same goes for most secondaries. There will be no Affectionate Parody; cameos are more along the lines of a drug-crazed Johnny Quest, a world-dominating Walt Disneyexpy, or the Fantastic Four where Mr. Fantastic isn't the useless one. The ONLY good character besides the Venture Brothers themselves in the whole show is a necromancer who doesn't care a whit about messing with the powers of beyond and black magicks.

However, Dr. Girlfriend and The Monarch have proven themselves to be a genuinely loving couple, and as shown throughout the third season, plenty of the other characters have shown to have some unselfish positives about themselves, too.

Moralton in Moral Orel. Originally this was played for laughs, but by season 3 it got downright depressing with just how horrible everything was.

Springfield ain't got nothin' on Quahog, Rhode Island. In Quahog, everyone is a moron, a pervert, a Jerkass, mentally ill, or some combination of the above. Brian might be an exception, but he is a huge Small Name, Big Ego (at least in later seasons) and can be a jerkass. Joe used to be nice, probably since he moved from another town, but he's become more of a jerk too with each passing season (This may be justified since rude and mean jokes about disabilities can turn the most sane person into an asshole). Although Meg has a kind heart and she isn't a jerkass, she has a violent streak, Yandere tendencies, and huge self-esteem problems (this was all brought on by the fact that she's the Butt Monkey, and significantly abused by her parents). Also, the mayor is a corrupt Cloudcuckoolander who's gotten away with killing people in public, and a rapist is allowed to walk the streets and live like a normal person (presumably because he has an amusing Catch Phrase. Giggity giggity goo!). Bonnie used to be an exception, but she turned out to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing. That's right, take away the humorous tone of the show, andFamily Guy becomes creepier than Gummo.

The original point was actually lampshaded by Meg in a later season, her claiming that if anyone else saw her life with the Griffins, Peter would be in jail for a lifetime, Chris would be jobless, Lois would be without her husband, etc. Then we get her awesome Reason You Suck Speechsubverted by her wanting to be the family's Butt Monkey since it "keeps them together".

Is Stewie an exception? Sure he used to be evil, but he got nicer each season.

The world of Futurama has many attractions to it, but at base it's a stereotypical American trailer park expanded to world size: nearly everyone is annoyed, annoying, credulous, stupid, bigoted, and rude; vital human organs are removed from unwilling donators on the city streets, atleast moderately-intelligent animals, including humans, dolphins, and whales are killed for food or fuel; it is implied that there will be no qualms about synthesizing a needed oil in the cells of gene-spliced third-world orphans who would then presumably be violently harvested. The Earth's most looked-up-to figure is a megalomaniacal, genocidal (of both aliens and his own troops), jerk who's lousy in bed. And Richard Nixon, or at least his head, rules the whole lot, his tyranny (as before) limited only by his incompetence and self-hatred. Even Santa Claus is a postal invincible psycho who has turned Xmas into a night of terror and despair, where the populace huddle in military-grade bunkers and hope to survive his brutal rampage. Now do you want your flying car?

Farnsworth: Actually, out of every probable future, this is the worst.

Marge: It is, because my baby's not in it.

Farnsworth: Ah, motherly love. Why did we ever outlaw that?

In season 3 of ReBoot, the formerly-bustling city of Mainframe has been turned into a pretty nasty Crapsack World. It gets better, but by the cliffhanger ending of the fourth season, it looks like it might be on its way back to Crapsackdom.

To be fair, that's a fairly realistic depiction of 17th century piracy and ADVENTURE! only in a blend of modern time.

Megas XLR has the alternate dimension, as shown in "Rearview Mirror, Mirror".

The world in the 1960s USA/Czechoslovakian series Nudnik seemed to exist solely to torment the titular character.

The world of Samurai Jack. Aku rules everything, and the only weapon that can stop him for sure is Jack's sword. If you're not a slave, chances are you're being terrorized by some two-bit thug. It's been getting better since Jack showed up though.

The Gotham City of Batman: The Animated Series is almost as bad as its comic counterpart. In most other action shows of its time, there were space monsters and futuristic skyscrapers. Gotham was the only kids' show setting you had to walk the streets of while worrying about getting mugged and/or shot.

Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic: Imagine an afterlife where very few people actually ascend to heaven, but most suffer in the nine circles of Hell for the sins they committed in life. In Hell, where mankind's sins have caused Lucifer to grow in power, not worshipping the Christian faith not only sends you to limbo for all eternity despite the good deeds you have done in life, even unbaptized babies must reside in the first circle through a fault not entirely their own (this was where Dante's stillborn malformed child was held). Then there's Dante's mother, who upon committing suicide, was sent to the Wood of Suicide by Minos where she is turned into a fleshly tree growing in eternal pain. And there are the rest of the nine hells, like Gluttony, a wet fleshy realm where Cerberus (who looks nothing like a three-headed dog) swallows the gluttonous and condemns to a fate of everlasting hunger. This all isn't surprising since the animated short is based on the video game which itself is based on Dante's Divine Comedy. Lucifer sums it up to Beatrice perfectly:

Beatrice: "It is not our fault. None of it. Man is good."

Lucifer: "No... you don't understand. The Earth is another form of Hell. And men are its demons."

In the other ''Dante's Inferno'', Hell is a huge urban landscape in total disarray. The punishments of the damned are more or less the same as the original, but the images (and the actual damned themselves) are updated so viewers will recognize them. Marilyn Monroe is among the suicides turned into trees, Limbo is a slum where Virgil and company are essentially bums, and identity thieves take on the appearance of whoever passes by. In this case, it's played for laughs.

In the Gorillaz universe, Murdoc Niccals was permitted, nay, required as part of his community service sentence, to look after a coma patient. A coma patient whose condition was Murdoc's fault in the first place! Plus three single men - one a well-known criminal and all-round sleazebag, one a ditzy prescription drug addict, and one a possession victim who may not at that time have had UK citizenship - who were, at the time, living in a building haunted by demons and zombies, apparently ran into no legal obstacles whatever when they decided to raise a ten-year-old non-English-speaking girl they found in a FedEx crate. Okay, so Noodle actually worked out fine (at least until El Manana), but ...

Codename: Kids Next Door. From congress passing laws to hurt kids even though they break the constitution, to constant battles, to the fact a huge-ass ship manned by Candy Pirates can plow through your city at any moment, it's surprising that no one in the universe is suicidal.

Though adults and kids outside of the conspiracy seem to be completely unaware that anything abnormal goes on at all, though that changes from time to time.

An episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius had an evil clone of Jimmy managing to create another Earth, where every single person there, parents and teachers included, was evil, the sun was never bright, and doing anything good would result in getting chewed out.

In Generator Rex, after the Nanite Event, the world got a lot nastier. Everyone is infected with nanomachines that can go rogue and cause horrible mutations at any given moment. Imagine you're sitting on the bus, and out of nowhere, the guy sitting next to you screams in pain and turns into a rampaging monster that'd give H. R. Giger nightmares. Bad day to be you. Quite possibly an even worse day to be the guy who was sitting next to you. This happens around the world every day, and only one person in the entire world might be able to turn the monster back into a normal person. And if he can't turn you back, you're either killed outright, or else "contained" indefinitely, by Providence, the morally-gray (at best) international consortium that more or less runs the post-Event world.

The animated series of Jumanji, more so than the film, depicts the game world as a brutal place to live, in which Alan can barely survive. Unlike many of the other examples on this page, Jumanji is not a dystopian and human Crapsack World, but a monster-filled, terror-filled jungle. It's Darkest Africa on steroids.

For random civilians, Megakat City seems to apply. The city, or large parts of it, seems to be destroyed on a regular basis, the police are too incompetent to prevent supervillain attacks before they happen, and the local eponymous vigilantes can only stop the attacks from consuming the whole city, but usually several skyscrapers, at the least, are destroyed in the process.

There's also The Town of Citiesville from one episode whereas Reality Ensues, criminals run amok unstopped and everyone else there is a complete Jerkass to everyone, and especially the Girls and the Professors, being considered freaks and the Girls' heroism aren't welcome there.

There's a reason why in Superjail business is always booming. The world is violent, cold and crime-filled everywhere. Do not show any signs of kindness or the predatory masses will see it as weakness. You will be robbed and beaten savagely within seconds of giving a kind word. And that's just life outside the jail. Inside the jail, led by a Reality WarperPsychopathic Manchild Warden, the inmates (thugs, terrorists, rapists and the occasional comedic - but still lethal - supervillain) are brutally murdered by a killer robot, an overly-violent MtF transsexual, a Mad Scientist obsessed with Half-Human Hybrids and a couple of alien twins who wreak havoc just For the Evulz.

Highland in Beavis and Butt-Head. The adults are either mean-spirited and ill-tempered or peaceful yet clueless, the kids and the teenagers are stupid and/or violent, and the whole town looks like the extension of a junkyard. However, Daria Morgendorffer, even being cynical and a Deadpan Snarker, she is the exception.

The universe of Cow and Chicken is a huge trailer park and everyone acts like white trash.

Cybertron, home of the Transformers, is either a burnt-out urban wasteland sucked dry of energy after eons of warfare (see Generation 1), a natural Death World for any species that aren't Mechanical Lifeforms and may be a hazard even for them (see the comics, where Cybertron's natural ecology includes huge lightning storms and seas of acid), or both.

Earth often isn't much better after the Transformers show up. Two armies of sentient Humongous Mecha that have been fighting for probably longer than the human race has existed have chosen our planet for their latest battleground. Oh, and for extra Paranoia Fuel, those giant robots can disguise themselves as anything even vaguely mechanical, including buildings.

Don't turn your back on appliances either. Your boombox could turn into Soundwave or one of his minions...

The world in The Legend of Korra is less crapsacky, as peace has been restored, but Republic City is pretty much the worst of the early 20th century's China, with poverty being rampant. The benders abused their power, and that caused the Equalist Revolution, which is pretty much a terrorist movement lead by a highly manipulative Knight Templar and that manages to conquer Republic City. Afterwards, Amon is defeated and the Equalist movement is seemingly losing power, but the next season features evil spirits running rampant.

It turns out things have already been much worse prior to Book 1. Every country in the world (except for the Fire Nation) has an evil head of state. At the end of each book though, that changes. By the end of Book 3 however, things only got worse after the evil Earth Queen is dead. Even with the evil rulers defeated and replaced with better ones, the new world leaders are now in danger of a global anarchist organization.

The Simpsons plays the trope to the extreme; Homer chokes Bart in nearly every other episode while neglecting the kids in general or brushing off whatever Marge says to him. Lisa is the only sane girl of the whole town, but even she gets caught up in whatever schemes the family gets into due to peer pressure. Bart is a mischievous Book Dumb boy who would do literally anything to get out of going to school or doing homework and nearly every shenanigans he pulls is always done for a quick giggle no matter who gets hurt. Marge is the voice of reason unless the plot demands she does something out of the ordinary. And then there's Maggie, a baby who does a better job looking after herself than her family does.

The whole town in general is so full of crapsack that it's the norm. The school is always dangerously underfunded while its staff pretty much barely pretends to care about its students. The police force are nothing but a group of morons that hardly catch any criminals or they always go after people for very minor infractions, such as littering. The mayor is so heavily corrupted that people don't even bat an eye at it and when the town does get angry over it, they quickly forget about it. Even the nuclear power plant practically has zero safety for its employees and the town itself due to the corruption of the multi-billionare owner. When it comes to the town itself as a whole, everyone has taken pride in every negative light they get thrown into, such as being the most depressing town in the country, the most polluted, and the most obese.

The heavily toxic environment is a plot point in one episode when character Frank Grimes is introduced as an average man who works from dusk to dawn everyday, lives in a small apartment on top and below two bowling alleys, has a lousy car, and has to make do with subpar meals for dinner. Frank is heavily appalled by Homer's lifestyle being so much better than his own by having better pay (in comparison to Frank's pay), a nicer car, a big house, and big tasty dinners. Frank eventually snaps from it all when he sees everyone are blissfully oblivious of Homer's idiocy and winds up killing himself by accident from the sheer madness. The writers stated they created the Frank Grimes character to show that a "normal" person could not survive in a place like Springfield. Although generally this is discussed among fans, as many see him as a Jerkass with a short temper.

"The Boys of Bummer" is pretty much the textbook definition of this trope, with every last citizen (sans Marge) driving Bart to suicideover a lost baseball game. This episode proves that Springfield can be as bad a place as South Park. It's safe to say that while the show plays the trope for laughs, it is also dark on a deeper level.

However, other secondary characters, such as Carl and the cop Lou, are the exception, and often they are the brains of those who work.

Ben 10 would count, as despite its cartoony portrayal, it's not a nice place to live in. Basically, Earth is constantly visited by hundreds of aliens, who are only interested in exploiting the planet for its resources or schemes, or destroy it as part of their evil plan, or that they can. There areSpace Cops to deal with that sort of thing, but Earth is considered a backwater planet, so many of them are outright reluctant to waste resources in order to defend it (though this seems to improve over the course of the franchise). You also have Lovecraftian cosmic horrors from another dimension, crazy Cape Busters who dress and behave like literal Knight Templars, and an entire Empire of frog-like Blood Knights who don't follow the previously mentioned Space Cops' rules and are a huge example of Aliens Are Bastards. Oh, and Death Rays capable of destroying planets are available even to comedic villains.

Dan Vs. starts in a Crapsaccharine World before quickly delving into this. It's initially crapsaccharine because despite being a normal world, the protagonist is a petty, paranoid psychopath who takes out revenge on people for the smallest of felonies. It becomes this trope when you realize, Dan ended up the way he is because of this world. Every job is Serious Business: dentists hurt patients to ensure they keep coming back and a demon from Hell runs your office. If you don't have enough insurance, hospitals hire an actor pretending to be a doctor. Cyborgs run your local gym and they're going to replace you. New Mexico sacrifices someone every year for a hot air balloon. The main population, including police forces, have the intelligence of a fly. This was planned by other countries hoping to dumb down America until they aren't a threat. People hoping to steal your identity or eat you alive are everywhere. The government can't deal with minor issues like that because they're busy ensuring peace between nations and hiding dinosaurs from the public. The only person who does anything is Dan. He only cares if it affects him, and he's blown up countries because he's had a bad day. Crap.

Equestria under control ofanyofthe previous main villains was this as well - arguably.

Like the newspaper comic strip where it originated, the animated version of Dilbert is also an incredibly crapsack world. Everyone (except Dilbert, and to a lesser extent Dogbert) is either stupid, greedy, blatant liars, assholes, or all four. Dogbert, while he is greedy, is more The Barnum, and delights in taking advantage of the complete idiocy of humanity. Dilbert is (quite possibly) the Only Sane Man, and tries to be a nice guy, attempting to come up with solutions to problems that he had nothing to do with (but is forced into lending a hand anyway), or don't even exist in the first place (such as "Cubicle Syndrome"). If said solution works, then all credit will either go to his Pointy-Haired Boss, the guys in Marketing, or the problem will simply go away on its own, making Dilbert's solution moot. Nice Guys Finish Last? Pfft, in Dilbert, they probably won't cross the finish line.

The Eds are con arists with no money to get jawbreakers and thus resort to unsuccessfully(usually) scamming children out of their money to buy some. Because of this, they are ostrazised and bullied, even if A.) they haven't done anything or B.) only one of them (usually Eddy) has done somthing.

Ed is only going along with what Eddy because he's either Lethally Stupid, a Cloud Cuckoo Lander who can't tell right from wrong, or Obfuscating Stupidity at the cost of other people's pain and tons of property damage. If that's not enough, he is constantly physically harrassed by his little sister for the pettiest of reasons, if any. His mother does nothing to stop her, and instead punishes/neglects Ed while his father doesn't seem to care either way.

Edd is an Extreme DoormatFragile Flower who tries to steer Eddy on the right path, with no luck. Despite being the nicest of the Eds, he's still treated the same way by all of the other Kids. Beyond that, his parents are almost never home, communicating to him through sticky notes.

Rolf is the nicest kid to the Eds on the show. But if they (or anyone, really) messes with his heritage or Urban Ranger pride, they find otu Rolf is a force to be reckonded with, from smacking Eddy senseless with a fish because Eddy accidentally offended him to smashing Edd into a pancake with a giant mallet for dressing up his pig in a tuxedo after Edd's parents (actually Ed and Eddy) told him to. Rolf even admits he admires Edd's obediance to his parents while hitting him.

Nazz tries to bring order to the Kids like Edd does with the Eds, but even she gives the Eds as much grief as the others.

Kevin is the worst. A textbook example of a JerkJock who messes with the Eds more than the other Kids, usually with little to no reason. But it doesn't stop there. He's also a complete Jerkass to Jimmy and Jonny because he finds them pathetic.

The Kankers are worse than the Eds and Kids combined. They attack everyone else on the show, expecially the Eds, who they dish out Double Standard: Rape, Female on Male almost every episode they appear in.

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